We went to the Ukrainian festival in Silver Springs on Saturday and had a blast. Good food, dozens of families and dancing. It was wonderful really.
Хай живе вільна Україна
Khay zhyve vilʹna Ukrayina
Mary takes her turn on the dance floor
ARE WE REALLY GOING TO ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN? NAME THE COMMANDERS WHO ORDERED OUR TROOPS TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY AND LET SOCIAL MEDIA DO THE REST.................
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore
Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEINSEPT. 20, 2015
KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last
phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was
troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan
police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
“At night we can hear them
screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father,
Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death
at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that
his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”
Rampant sexual abuse of children
has long been a problem in Afghanistan,particularly among armed commanders who
dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice
is calledbacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines
have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their
Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and
court records.
The policy has endured as
American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold
territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly
troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was
arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages — and
doing little when they began abusing children.
“The reason we were here is
because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they
were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain
who beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to
his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do
things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders
voiced to me.”
The policy of instructing
soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan allies is coming under
new scrutiny, particularly as it emerges that service members like Captain
Quinn have faced discipline, even career ruin, for disobeying it.
After the beating, the Army
relieved Captain Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan. He has
since left the military.
Four years later, the Army is
also trying to forcibly retire Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, a Special
Forces member who joined Captain Quinn in beating up the commander.
“The Army contends that Martland
and others should have looked the other way (a contention that I believe is
nonsense),” Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who hopes to
save Sergeant Martland’s career, wrote last week to the Pentagon’s inspector
general.
In Sergeant Martland’s case, the
Army said it could not comment because of the Privacy Act.
When asked about American
military policy, the spokesman for the American command in Afghanistan, Col.
Brian Tribus, wrote in an email: “Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse
by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan
criminal law.” He added that “there would be no express requirement that U.S.
military personnel in Afghanistan report it.” An exception, he said, is when
rape is being used as a weapon of war.
The American policy of
nonintervention is intended to maintain good relations with the Afghan police
and militia units the United States has trained to fight the Taliban. It also
reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is
rife, particularly among powerful men, for whom being surrounded by young
teenagers can be a mark of social status.
Some soldiers believed that the
policy made sense, even if they were personally distressed at the sexual
predation they witnessed or heard about.
“The bigger picture was fighting
the Taliban,” a former Marine lance corporal reflected. “It wasn’t to stop
molestation.”
Still, the former lance corporal,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid offending fellow Marines,
recalled feeling sickened the day he entered a room on a base and saw three or
four men lying on the floor with children between them. “I’m not a hundred
percent sure what was happening under the sheet, but I have a pretty good idea
of what was going on,” he said.
But the American policy of
treating child sexual abuse as a cultural issue has often alienated the
villages whose children are being preyed upon. The pitfalls of the policy emerged
clearly as American Special Forces soldiers began to form Afghan Local Police
militias to hold villages that American forces had retaken from the Taliban in
2010 and 2011.
By the summer of 2011, Captain
Quinn and Sergeant Martland, both Green Berets on their second tour in northern
Kunduz Province, began to receive dire complaints about the Afghan Local Police
units they were training and supporting.
First, they were told, one of the
militia commanders raped a 14- or 15-year-old girl whom he had spotted working
in the fields. Captain Quinn informed the provincial police chief, who soon
levied punishment. “He got one day in jail, and then she was forced to marry
him,” Mr. Quinn said.
When he asked a superior officer
what more he could do, he was told that he had done well to bring it up with
local officials but that there was nothing else to be done. “We’re being
praised for doing the right thing, and a guy just got away with raping a
14-year-old girl,” Mr. Quinn said.
Village elders grew more upset at
the predatory behavior of American-backed commanders. After each case, Captain
Quinn would gather the Afghan commanders and lecture them on human rights.
Soon another commander absconded
with his men’s wages. Mr. Quinn said he later heard that the commander had
spent the money on dancing boys. Another commander murdered his 12-year-old
daughter in a so-called honor killing for having kissed a boy. “There were no
repercussions,” Mr. Quinn recalled.
In September 2011, an Afghan
woman, visibly bruised, showed up at an American base with her son, who was
limping. One of the Afghan police commanders in the area, Abdul Rahman, had
abducted the boy and forced him to become a sex slave, chained to his bed, the
woman explained. When she sought her son’s return, she herself was beaten. Her
son had eventually been released, but she was afraid it would happen again, she
told the Americans on the base.
She explained that because “her
son was such a good-looking kid, he was a status symbol” coveted by local
commanders, recalled Mr. Quinn, who did not speak to the woman directly but was
told about her visit when he returned to the base from a mission later that
day.
So Captain Quinn summoned Abdul
Rahman and confronted him about what he had done. The police commander
acknowledged that it was true, but brushed it off. When the American officer
began to lecture about “how you are held to a higher standard if you are
working with U.S. forces, and people expect more of you,” the commander began
to laugh.
“I picked him up and threw him onto the
ground,” Mr. Quinn said. Sergeant Martland joined in, he said. “I did this to
make sure the message was understood that if he went back to the boy, that it
was not going to be tolerated,” Mr. Quinn recalled.
There is disagreement over the
extent of the commander’s injuries. Mr. Quinn said they were not serious, which
was corroborated by an Afghan official who saw the commander afterward.
(The commander, Abdul Rahman, was
killed two years ago in a Taliban ambush. His brother said in an interview that
his brother had never raped the boy, but was the victim of a false accusation
engineered by his enemies.)
Sergeant Martland, who received a
Bronze Star for valor for his actions during a Taliban ambush, wrote in a
letter to the Army this year that he and Mr. Quinn “felt that morally we could
no longer stand by and allow our A.L.P. to commit atrocities,” referring to the
Afghan Local Police.
The father of Lance Corporal
Buckley believes the policy of looking away from sexual abuse was a factor in
his son’s death, and he has filed a lawsuit to press the Marine Corps for more
information about it.
Lance Corporal Buckley and two
other Marines were killed in 2012 by one of a large entourage of boys living at
their base with an Afghan police commander named Sarwar Jan.
Mr. Jan had long had a bad
reputation; in 2010, two Marine officers managed to persuade the Afghan
authorities to arrest him following a litany of abuses, including corruption,
support for the Taliban and child abduction. But just two years later, the
police commander was back with a different unit, working at Lance Corporal
Buckley’s post, Forward Operating Base Delhi, in Helmand Province.
Lance Corporal Buckley had
noticed that a large entourage of “tea boys” — domestic servants who are sometimes
pressed into sexual slavery — had arrived with Mr. Jan and moved into the same
barracks, one floor below the Marines. He told his father about it during his
final call home.
Word of Mr. Jan’s new position
also reached the Marine officers who had gotten him arrested in 2010. One of
them, Maj. Jason Brezler, dashed out an email to Marine officers at F.O.B.
Delhi, warning them about Mr. Jan and attaching a dossier about him.
The warning was never heeded.
About two weeks later, one of the older boys with Mr. Jan — around 17 years old
— grabbed a rifle and killed Lance Corporal Buckley and the other Marines.
Lance Corporal Buckley’s father
still agonizes about whether the killing occurred because of the sexual abuse
by an American ally. “As far as the young boys are concerned, the Marines are
allowing it to happen and so they’re guilty by association,” Mr. Buckley said.
“They don’t know our Marines are sick to their stomachs.”
The one American service member
who was punished in the investigation that followed was Major Brezler, who had
sent the email warning about Mr. Jan, his lawyers said. In one of Major Brezler’s
hearings, Marine Corps lawyers warned that information about the police
commander’s penchant for abusing boys might be classified. The Marine Corps has
initiated proceedings to discharge Major Brezler.
Mr. Jan appears to have moved on,
to a higher-ranking police command in the same province. In an interview, he
denied keeping boys as sex slaves or having any relationship with the boy who
killed the three Marines. “No, it’s all untrue,” Mr. Jan said. But people who
know him say he still suffers from “a toothache problem,” a euphemism here for
child sexual abuse.
MY LATEST BOOK................................
This is a book of short stories taken
from the things I saw and heard in my childhood in the factory town of Ansonia
in southwestern Connecticut. Most of these stories, or as true as I recall them
because I witnessed these events many years ago through the eyes of child and are
retold to you now with the pen and hindsight of an older man. The only
exception is the story Beat Time
which is based on the disappearance of Beat poet Lew Welch. Decades before I
knew who Welch was, I was told that he had made his from California to New
Haven, Connecticut, where was an alcoholic living in a mission. The notion
fascinated me and I filed it away but never forgot it.
The collected stories are loosely
modeled around Joyce’s novel, Dubliners (I
also borrowed from the novels character and place names. Ivy Day, my character in “Local Orphan is Hero” is also the name
of chapter in Dubliners, etc.) and like Joyce I wanted to write about my
people, the people I knew as a child, the working class in small town America
and I wanted to give a complete view of them as well. As a result the stories
are about the divorced, Gays, black people, the working poor, the middle class,
the lost and the found, the contented and the discontented.
Conversely
many of the stories in this book are about starting life over again as a result
of suicide (The Hanging Party, Small
Town Tragedy, Beat
Time) or from a near death experience
(Anna Bell Lee and the Charge of the
Light Brigade, A Brief Summer)
and
natural occurring death. (The
Best Laid Plans, The Winter Years, Balanced and Serene)
With
the exception of Jesus Loves Shaqunda, in each story there is a rebirth
from the death. (Shaqunda is
reported as having died of pneumonia in The Winter Years)
Sal,
the desperate and depressed divorcee in Things
Change, changes his life in Lunch
Hour when asks the waitress for a date and she accepts. (Which we learn in Closing Time, the last story in the
book) In The Arranged Time,
Thisby is given the option of change and whether she takes it or, we don’t
know. The death of Greta’s husband in A Matter of Time has led her to the
diner and into the waiting arms of the outgoing and loveable Gabe.
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In 1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two brothers and two sisters entered Connecticut’s foster care system and were promptly split apart. Over the next ten years, John would live in more than ten foster homes, group homes and state schools, from his native Waterbury to Ansonia, New Haven, West Haven, Deep River and Hartford. In the end, a decade later, the state returned him to the same home and the same parents they had taken him from. As tragic as is funny compelling story will make you cry and laugh as you journey with this child to overcome the obstacles of the foster care system and find his dreams.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John William Tuohy is a writer who lives in Washington DC. He holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. He is the author of numerous non-fiction on the history of organized crime including the ground break biography of bootlegger Roger Tuohy "When Capone's Mob Murdered Touhy" and "Guns and Glamour: A History of Organized Crime in Chicago."
His non-fiction crime short stories have appeared in The New Criminologist, American Mafia and other publications. John won the City of Chicago's Celtic Playfest for his work The Hannigan's of Beverly, and his short story fiction work, Karma Finds Franny Glass, appeared in AdmitTwo Magazine in October of 2008.
His play, Cyberdate.Com, was chosen for a public performance at the Actors Chapel in Manhattan in February of 2007 as part of the groups Reading Series for New York project. In June of 2008, the play won the Virginia Theater of The First Amendment Award for best new play.
Contact John:
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JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
People
favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight
for a few underdogs anyway.
I'll be speaking and signing books at Mt. St. Johns on October 3
HERE'S SOME FANTASTIC ADVICE
“Ladies
and gentlemen of the class of '97:
― Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen: A
Primer for Real Life
Wear sunscreen. If I could offer
you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits
of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has
no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this
advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of
your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of
your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at
photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility
lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you
imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or
worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra
equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be
things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4
pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that
scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other
people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on
jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long
and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw
away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't
know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know
didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most
interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to
your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you
won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40,
maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever
you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your
choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way
you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the
greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere
to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you
don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines.
They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You
never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're
your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the
future.
Understand that friends come and
go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in
geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the
people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but
leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave
before it makes you soft. Travel.
Accept certain inalienable
truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old.
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were
reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to
support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse.
But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your
hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy,
but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.”
HERE'S A LITTLE SHAKESPEARE TO ENJOY
William Shakespeare
Love
looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Love
sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Who
could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love
known?
Love
to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and
unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
The
course of true love never did run smooth.
If
music be the food of love, play on.
Love
is too young to know what conscience is.
Speak
low, if you speak love.
The
love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Love
is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Love
looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And
therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
The
course of true love never did run smooth
Love
looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
They
do not love that do not show their love.
As
soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
As
soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with
words.
Love
is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Love
all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Love
is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Who
could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love
known?
We
know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Life
is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Love
sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Talking
isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not
deeds.
A
man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Words
without thoughts never to heaven go.
The
man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet
sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
False
face must hide what the false heart doth know.
The
devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
With
mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Men
are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are
maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
When
we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Fishes
live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Give
thy thoughts no tongue.
Speak
low, if you speak love.
And
oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Boldness
be my friend.
Let
me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Alas,
I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
I
say there is no darkness but ignorance.
Ambition
should be made of sterner stuff.
I
am not bound to please thee with my answer.
One
touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Pleasure
and action make the hours seem short.
Reputation
is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without
deserving.
In
time we hate that which we often fear.
Life
every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than
life.
Love
is too young to know what conscience is.
No,
I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
Go
to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
I
may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a
living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
If
we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the
fewer men, the greater share of honor.
Give
every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
O!
Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be
mad!
If
you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which
will not, speak then unto me.
As
he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Having
nothing, nothing can he lose.
What's
done can't be undone.
The
robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
The
golden age is before us, not behind us.
Love
is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
When
sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
How
sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
I
had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to
travel for it too!
The
most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself
what he is and steal out of your company.
I
hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a
part, And mine is a sad one.
The
lady doth protest too much, methinks.
The
love of heaven makes one heavenly.
'Tis
not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
God
hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Things
done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Children
wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their
judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
There's
many a man has more hair than wit.
But
men are men; the best sometimes forget.
I
wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
They
do not love that do not show their love.
Give
me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
Let
every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Poor
and content is rich, and rich enough.
Some
rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
There
is no darkness but ignorance.
Maids
want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
What
is past is prologue.
Brevity
is the soul of wit.
Lawless
are they that make their wills their law.
Modest
doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
The
undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
My
crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
The
very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Faith,
there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved
them.
The
lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
If
it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
To
be, or not to be, that is the question.
To
do a great right do a little wrong.
When
words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
There's
no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
Words,
words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
If
to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches,
and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
By
that sin fell the angels.
Desire
of having is the sin of covetousness.
Heat
not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Suit
the action to the word, the word to the action.
Sweet
are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a
precious jewel in his head.
As
flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
O
thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call
thee devil.
Virtue
is bold, and goodness never fearful.
For
I can raise no money by vile means.
There
have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Things
won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
We
are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
Neither
a borrower nor a lender be.
Teach
not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such
contempt.
He
that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
Is
it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
Now
is the winter of our discontent.
The
stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Time
and the hour run through the roughest day.
I
will praise any man that will praise me.
Death
is a fearful thing.
He
does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
If
you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
It
is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
Such
as we are made of, such we be.
'Tis
one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
I
never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
Many
a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Men's
vows are women's traitors!
Nothing
can come of nothing.
Uneasy
lies the head that wears a crown.
Sweet
mercy is nobility's true badge.
The
fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
Most
dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
What,
man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
Fortune
brings in some boats that are not steered.
In
a false quarrel there is no true valor.
There's
place and means for every man alive.
Farewell,
fair cruelty.
'Tis
best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
I
dote on his very absence.
Mind
your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
I
shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
I
was adored once too.
O'
What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
Our
peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Like
as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their
end.
O!
for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
'Tis
better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
Wisely,
and slow. They stumble that run fast.
I
like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
I
were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with
perpetual motion.
Men
shut their doors against a setting sun.
How
well he's read, to reason against reading!
I
see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
My
pride fell with my fortunes.
O
God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of
this world!
For
my part, it was Greek to me.
I
bear a charmed life.
There's
not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
He
that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
How
oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
Lord,
Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Praise
us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
Truly,
I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
He
is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Let
no such man be trusted.
O,
had I but followed the arts!
The
attempt and not the deed confounds us.
Well,
if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
They
say miracles are past.
So
foul and fair a day I have not seen.
The
valiant never taste of death but once.
Exceeds
man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
It
will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Nature
hath framed strange fellows in her time.
O,
what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Use
every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
Virtue
itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Where
every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
But
if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
There
was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
We
are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a
sleep.
What
a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in
form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in
apprehension how like a god.
We
cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed
to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but
all things return dissolved into their elements.
HERE'S PLEASANT POEM FOR YOU TO
ENJOY................
For My
Son Noah Ten Years Old
by Robert
Bly
Nigh and day arrive and day
after day goes by
And what is old remains old
and what is young remains young and grows old.
The lumber pile does not
grow younger nor the two-by-fours lose their darkness
but the old tree goes on
the barn stands without help so many years;
the advocate of darkness
and night is not lost.
The horse steps up swings
on one leg turns its body
the chicken flapping claws
onto the roost its wings whelping and walloping
but what is primitive is
not to be shot out into the night and the dark.
And slowly the kind man
comes closer loses his rage sits down at table.
So I am proud only of those
days that pass in undivided tenderness
when you sit drawing or
making books stapled with messages to the world
or coloring a man with fire
coming out of his hair.
Or we sit at a table with
small tea carefully poured.
So we pass our time
together calm and delighted.
Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His most commercially successful book to date was Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement, which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list.He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
HERE'S SOME NICE ART FOR YOU TO LOOK
AT....ENJOY!
“This life is what you make it.
No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But
the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will
be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come,
some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true
best friends. Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the
best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And
baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are
going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll
never find your soulmate.
You'll never find that half who
makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once,
doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
Keep trying, hold on, and always,
always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will,
sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep
smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” Marilyn Monroe, who was a foster child.
Sculpture this and Sculpture that
Gaul Killing Himself and his Wife (The Ludovisi Gaul). Second century Roman copy after a Hellenistic original c. 230-220 BC. Museo Nazionale di Roma, Palazzo Altemps.
DON'T YOU LOVE POP ART?
Alejandro Jodorowsky pop
“I've learned that no matter what
happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better
tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she
handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas
tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your
parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that
making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that
you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be
able to throw something back. I've learned that whenever I decide something
with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even
when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you
should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly
pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned
that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made them feel.”― Maya Angelou
I LOVE
BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS
Untitled (Southside, Chicago), 1958, Chicago. Charles Swedlund.
WHY THE WORLD NEEDS
EDITORS.....................
"But
I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that
you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on
the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." Jesus
Christ
THE ART OF PULP
THE ART OF WAR...............................
Photographs I’ve taken
Lake Fairfax Virginia
Lake Fairfax Virginia
Lake Fairfax Virginia
West Virginia
Chicago
Las Vegas
Chicago/ Chinatown
San Diego
Deep River Connecticut
Outside Richmond Virginia
Las Vegas
Las Vegas
North Carolina
North Carolina
West Virginia
West Virginia
Bart
West Virginia
West Virginia
Dublin Ireland
Dublin Ireland
Newport Rhode Island
People taking pictures of people:
I'm an amateur photographer, I
travel a lot so some years ago and I noticed that everywhere I went there was
someone taking a photo of someone else. It's part of the human condition and I
think it’s fun so I started snapping pictures of people taking pictures.
Love
is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free. Taraji P. Henson
DON’T WORRY-BE HAPPY
Happiness
And Its Many Health Benefits Are Not Exclusive
By Eric Nelson on August 17, 2015 10:10 AM
“Recently, a critical mass of research has provided what might be
the most basic and irrefutable argument in favor of happiness,” declares Kira
Newman in her article on Cal Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center website.
“Happiness and good health go hand-in-hand. Indeed, scientific studies have
been finding that happiness can make our hearts healthier, our immune systems
stronger, and our lives longer.”
This is great news. But maybe not so great for those who aren’t
very good at being happy.
“I have bipolar disorder, and I often wonder how the emotional
symptoms that result affect my overall happiness and health,” writes “Tyla” in
the article’s comment section. “Do I get the short end of the stick because I
suffer from a disease that makes you prone to unhappiness from depression and
anxiety?”
If, as is widely believed, happiness is a largely chemical-based
phenomenon, then yes, it might be fair to assume that those whose bodies have
trouble generating such chemicals could be left with “the short end of the stick.”
This, in and of itself, is a pretty depressing thought.
If, on the other hand, there were some other source they might
turn to for happiness – a safer, more reliable, less chemical- or even
completely non-chemical-based source – then no, no one should be left out. Now
we’re talkin’.
Try as we might, though, we just can’t seem to shake the notion,
or dodge the penalties, of what most everyone assumes to be a matter-based
existence. Even so, it’s an assumption that deserves to be challenged.
“Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love,” affirms Mary
Baker Eddy, a religious and medical reformer whose many years of trial and
tribulation provided plenty of incentive to seek out the source – and resulting
health benefits – of happiness. “It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist
alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”
More than a mere statement of faith, Eddy’s conviction that
happiness originates in something outside of matter was a profound declaration
of truth wrought out of her own life experience – a truth that, as it became
better understood, had the effect of improving, not just her own health, but
the health of those she encouraged to consider this same Spirit-based point of
view.
Of course, there are times when adopting such an outlook is a lot
easier said than done, particularly when we find ourselves fixating on the
happiness of others – what social commentators often refer to as the “fear of
missing out” or FoMO. It’s in just these situations, however, when simply being
open to the fact that happiness, as a wholly spiritual expression, “requires
all mankind to share it” can be especially helpful in breaking through whatever
mental logjam would seem to be getting in the way of our own sense of
contentment.
Even more important than the revelation that “happiness and good
health go hand-in-hand” is the understanding that happiness is not exclusive.
No one is left out. And ultimately, no one can be or should be deprived of its
many benefits, not the least of which is better health.
Eric Nelson writes each week on the link between consciousness and
health from his perspective as a practitioner of Christian Science. He also
serves as the media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in
Northern California. Read similar columns at norcalcs.org and follow him on
Twitter @norcalcs.
WE NEED PAID FAMILY LEAVE FOR AMERICANS
A New
Vision for Child Care in the United States
A Proposed New Tax Credit to Expand High-Quality Child Care
By creating a new High-Quality Child Care Tax Credit, we can
help families work and prepare children for school.
By Katie Hamm and Carmel Martin | Wednesday, September 2, 2015
More than 12 million children in the United States under age 5 attend child
care each week. Across the country, millions of working families struggle to
find affordable, high-quality child care. For most of those families, child
care is an economic necessity, as 65 percent of children under 6 years old have
all of their available parents in the labor force.
However, child care is quickly becoming unaffordable for the
families who need it. The average annual price of a child care center exceeds
$10,000, and this price is growing. Over a 12-year period from 2000 to 2012,
child care costs for a typical middle-class family grew by $2,300. In 31 states
and the District of Columbia, the cost of full-time, center-based child care
trumps the average annual cost of tuition and fees for a public four-year
university. Existing programs designed to help families afford child care,
including the Child Care and Development Block Grant and the Child and
Dependent Care Tax Credit, reach only a small portion of families and do not
reflect actual child care prices.
The United States has the third-highest child care costs for
families, as measured by percentage of family income, compared with other
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries. At
the same time, the United States spends comparatively less money than other
countries when it comes to helping families afford child care. Failing to invest
in child care can have negative economic consequences, leading to lower
earnings for families and less economic growth.
Now more than ever, the United States is in need of a child care
system that supports working families and reflects the financial realities that
they face. The Center for American Progress proposes a High-Quality Child Care
Tax Credit available to help low-income and middle-class families afford child
care. The tax credit would provide up to $14,000 per child to reflect the cost
of high-quality child care paid directly to providers on a monthly basis to
help families afford child care. Families would contribute up to 12 percent of
their income toward child care fees on a sliding scale. The new tax credit
would support access to child care rated as high quality, which would be
selected by parents. This proposal would complement CAP’s call for universal,
voluntary preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds, thus creating access to
high-quality early learning programs from birth to kindergarten entry. In
addition to improving access to high-quality programs for children, the
proposal would save families thousands of dollars per year and facilitate child
care arrangements that support financial security for working families. In
supporting the current workforce and preparing tomorrow’s workforce for
success, the proposal would help secure America’s economic future.
Katie Hamm is the Director of Early Childhood Policy at the Center
for American Progress. Carmel Martin is the Executive Vice President for Policy
at the Center.
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Universal
basic income fueled by patents and predicted by Keynes?
In 1928, economist John Maynard
Keynes predicted that we would all be sitting easy by 2028. He predicted that
technology and the economy would advance to take over work and that humans
would reap the seeds of that automation with more free time. Keynes looks like
he was right about the technology and the economy, but who is reaping the
rewards?
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
In 1928, famed British economist
John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would advance so far in a hundred
years – by 2028 – that it will replace all work, and no one will need to worry
about making money.
“For the first time since his
creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem – how to use
his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which
science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and
agreeably and well.”
We still have thirteen years to
go before we reach Keynes’ prophetic year, but we’re not exactly on the way to
it. Americans are working harder than ever.
Keynes may be proven right about
technological progress. We’re on the verge of 3-D printing, driverless cars,
delivery drones, and robots that can serve us coffee in the morning and make
our beds.
But he overlooked one big
question: How to redistribute the profits from these marvelous labor-saving
inventions, so we’ll have the money to buy the free time they provide?
Without such a mechanism, most of
us are condemned to work ever harder in order to compensate for lost earnings
due to the labor-replacing technologies.
Such technologies are even
replacing knowledge workers – a big reason why college degrees no longer
deliver steadily higher wages and larger shares of the economic pie.
Since 2000, the vast majority of
college graduates have seen little or no income gains.
The economic model that
predominated through most of the twentieth century was mass production by many,
for mass consumption by many.
But the model we’re rushing
toward is unlimited production by a handful, for consumption by the few able to
afford it.
The ratio of employees to customers
is already dropping to mind-boggling lows.
When Facebook purchased the
messaging company WhatsApp for $19 billion last year, WhatsApp had fifty-five
employees serving 450 million customers.
When more and more can be done by
fewer and fewer people, profits go to an ever-smaller circle of executives and
owner-investors. WhatsApp’s young co-founder and CEO, Jan Koum, got $6.8
billionin the deal.
This in turn will leave the rest
of us with fewer well-paying jobs and less money to buy what can be produced,
as we’re pushed into the low-paying personal service sector of the economy.
Which will also mean fewer
profits for the handful of billionaire executives and owner-investors, because
potential consumers won’t be able to afford what they’re selling.
What to do? We might try to levy
a gigantic tax on the incomes of the billionaire winners and redistribute their
winnings to everyone else. But even if politically feasible, the winners will
be tempted to store their winnings abroad – or expatriate.
Suppose we look instead at the
patents and trademarks by which government protects all these new inventions.
Such government protections
determine what these inventions are worth. If patents lasted only three years
instead of the current twenty, for example, What’sApp would be worth a small
fraction of $19 billion – because after three years anybody could reproduce its
messaging technology for free.
Instead of shortening the patent
period, how about giving every citizen a share of the profits from all patents
and trademarks government protects? It would be a condition for receiving such
protection.
Say, for example, 20 percent of
all such profits were split equally among all citizens, starting the month they
turn eighteen.
In effect, this would be a basic
minimum income for everyone.
The sum would be enough to ensure
everyone a minimally decent standard of living – including money to buy the
technologies that would free them up from the necessity of working.
Anyone wishing to supplement
their basic minimum could of course choose to work – even though, as noted,
most jobs will pay modestly.
This outcome would also be good
for the handful of billionaire executives and owner-investors, because it would
ensure they have customers with enough money to buy their labor-saving gadgets.
Such a basic minimum would allow
people to pursue whatever arts or avocations provide them with meaning, thereby
enabling society to enjoy the fruits of such artistry or voluntary efforts.
We would thereby create the kind
of society John Maynard Keynes predicted we’d achieve by 2028 – an age of technological abundance in which
no one will need to work.
Happy Labor Day.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
THE BOOK OF FUNNY, ODD AND INTERESTING THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY
Compiled by
John William Tuohy
Yogi Berra Quotes
This
is like deja vu all over again."
"You
can observe a lot just by watching."
"He
must have made that before he died." -- Referring to a Steve McQueen
movie.
"I
want to thank you for making this day necessary." -- On Yogi Berra
Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947.
"I'd
find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it." -- When
asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.
"Think!
How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?"
"You've
got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might
got get there."
"I
knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
"If
you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
"If
you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
"You
better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat
six."
"Baseball
is 90% mental -- the other half is physical."
"It
was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too
much."
"Slump?
I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting."
"A
nickel isn't worth a dime today."
"Nobody
goes there anymore; it's too crowded."
"It
gets late early out there." -- Referring to the bad sun conditions in left
field at the stadium.
"Glen
Cove." -- Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show.
Once,
Yogi's wife Carmen asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New
Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you
like me to have you buried?" Yogi replied, "Surprise me."
"Do
you mean now?" -- When asked for the time.
"I
take a two hour nap, from one o'clock to four."
"When
you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"You
give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the
second half you give what's left."
"90%
of the putts that are short don't go in."
"I
made a wrong mistake."
"Texas
has a lot of electrical votes." -- During an election campaign, after
George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election.
"Thanks,
you don't look so hot yourself." -- After being told he looked cool.
"I
always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
"Yeah,
but we're making great time!" -- In reply to "Hey Yogi, I think we're
lost."
"If
the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them."
"Why
buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel."
"It's
never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't."
"How
long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my
name." -- Upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to
"bearer."
"I'd
say he's done more than that." -- When asked if first baseman Don
Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season.
"The
other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
"He
can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light." -- On the
acquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson.
"I
never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps
up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting,
how can I get mad at myself?"
"It
ain't the heat; it's the humility."
"The
towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
"You
should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to
yours."
"I
didn't really say everything I said."
"A
nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
"You
can observe a lot by watching."
"Ninety
percent of the game is half mental."
"I
wanna thank everybody here for making this night unnecessary."
Also from LLR Press....
BLOGLAPEDIA’S
BLOGS
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
for the blog of it
http://architecturefortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
THE ARTS
Art
for the Blog of It
http://artfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Art
for the Pop of it
http://artforthepopofit.blogspot.com/
Photography
for the blog of it
http://photographyfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Music
for the Blog of it
http://musicfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
http://sculpturethisandsculpturethat.blogspot.com/
The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
http://theartofwarcleverhuh.blogspot.com/
Album
Art (Photographic arts)
http://albumartsocheesyitsgood.blogspot.com/
Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://pulpfictiontrash.blogspot.com/
Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://goaheadadmitityouwanttoread.blogspot.com/
FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
http://thegodfathertrilogyblogspot.blogspot.com/
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
http://absolutelyblogalicious.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda (New England foods)
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes (Book support site)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams (New England foods)
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In Praise
of the Rhode Island Wiener (New England foods)
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Old
New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
FOSTER CARE
Foster Care new and Updates
Aging out of the system
Murder, Death and Abuse in the
Foster Care system
Angel and Saints in the Foster
Care System
The Foster Children’s Blogs
Foster Care Legislation
The Foster Children’s Bill of
Right
Foster Kids own Story
The Adventures of Foster Kid.
HEALTH
Me
vs. Diabetes (Diabetes education site)
http://mevsdiabetes-bloglapedia.blogspot.com/
HISTORY
The
Quotable Helen Keller
http://thequotablehelenkeller.blogspot.com/
Teddy
Roosevelt's Letters to his children (Book support site)
http://teddyrooseveltsletterstohischildren.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Machiavelli (Book support site)
http://thequotablemachiavelli.blogspot.com/
HUMOR
Whatever
you do, don't laugh
http://whateveryoudodontlaugh.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Grouch Marx
http://thequotablegrouchmarx.blogspot.com/
IRISH-AMERICANA
A Big
Blog of Irish Literature
http://abigblogofirishliterature.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Jokes (Book support blog)
http://theweeblogofirishjokes.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Recipes
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
The
Irish in their Own Words
http://theirishintheirownwords.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
LITERATURE
Following
Fitzgerald
http://followingfitzgerald.blogspot.com/
Shakespeare
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
The
Blogable Robert Frost
http://theblogablerobertfrost.blogspot.com/
Charles
Dickens
http://charlesdickensfan.blogspot.com/
The
Beat Poets of the Forever Generation
http://thebeatspoetsoftheforevergenera.blogspot.com/
Holden
Caulfield Blog Spot
http://holdencaulfieldblogspot.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://thequotableoscarwilde.blogspot.com/
NEW ENGLAND BLOGS
The
Quotable Thoreau
http://thequotablethenrydavidthoreau.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Emerson
http://emersonsaidit.blogspot.com/
The
New England Mafia
http://thenewenglandmafia.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Watch
Hill
http://watchhillwesterly.blogspot.com/
York
Beach
http://yorkbeachfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut History Blog
http://connecticuthistory.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut Irish
http://theconnecticutirish.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
NOSTALGIA
God,
How I hated the 70s
http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
Child
of the Sixties Forever
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
The
Kennedy’s in the 60’s
http://thekennedysinthe60s.blogspot.com/
Music
of the Sixties Forever
http://musicofthesixtiesforever.blogspot.com/
Elvis
and Nixon at the White House (Book support site)
http://elvisandnixonatthewhitehouse.blogspot.com/
Beatles
Fan Forever
http://beatlesfanforever.blogspot.com/
Year
One, 1955
http://yearone1955.blogspot.com/
Robert
Kennedy in His Own Words
The
1980s were fun
http://the1980swereokayactually.blogspot.com/
The
1990s. The last decade.
http://1990sthelastdecade.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZED CRIME
The
Russian Mafia
http://russianmafiagangster.blogspot.com/
The
American Jewish Gangster
http://theamericanjewishgangster.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Hollywood
http://themobinhollywood.blogspot.com/
We
Only Kill Each Other
http://weonlykilleachother.blogspot.com/
Early
Gangsters of New York City
http://earlygangstersofnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/
Al
Capone: Biography of a self-made Man
http://alcaponethebiographyofaselfmademan.blogspot.com/
The
Life and World of Al Capone
http://thelifeandworldofalcapone.blogspot.com/
The
Salerno Report
http://salernoreportmafiaandurderjohnkennedy.blogspot.com/
Guns
and Glamour
http://gunsandglamourthechicagomobahistory.blogspot.com/
The
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
http://thesaintvalentinesdaymassacre.blogspot.com/
Mob
Testimony
http://mobtestimony.blogspot.com/
Recipes
we would Die For
http://recipeswewoulddiefor.blogspot.com/
The
Prohibition in Pictures
http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Pictures
http://themobinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Vegas
http://themobinvegasinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
Roger
Touhy Gangster
http://rogertouhygangsters.blogspot.com/
Chicago’s
Mob Bosses
http://chicagosmobbossesfromaccardoto.blogspot.com/
Chicago
Gang Land: It Happened Here
http://chicagoganglandithappenedhere.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred years of Murder in Gangland
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
The
Mob Across America
http://themobacrossamerica.blogspot.com/
Mob
Cops, Lawyers and Front Men
http://mobcopslawyersandinformantsand.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dutch Schultz
http://shootingthemobdutchschultz.blogspot.com/
Bugsy&
His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://bugsyandvirginiahill.blogspot.com/
After
Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate on Organized Crime
http://aftervalachi.blogspot.com/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee (Book
support site)
http://virgilpetersonmobbuster.blogspot.com/
The
US Government’s Timeline of Organized Crime (Book support site)
http://timelineoforganizedcrime.blogspot.com/
The
Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings (Book support site)
http://thekefauverorganizedcrimehearings.blogspot.com/
Joe
Valachi's testimony on the Mafia (Book support site)
http://joevalachistestimonyonthemafia.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in the News
http://mobstersinthenews.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dead Mobsters (Book support site)
http://deadmobsters.blogspot.com/
The
Stolen Years Full Text (Roger Touhy)
http://thestolenyearsfulltext.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in Black and White
http://mobstersinblackandwhite.blogspot.com/
Mafia
Gangsters, Wiseguys and Goodfellas
http://mafiagangsterswiseguysandgoodfellas.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob (Book support site)
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal (Book support site)
http://ganglandgaslightrosyrosenthal.blogspot.com/
The
Best of the Mob Files Series (Book support site)
http://thebestofthemobfilesseries.blogspot.com/
PHILOSOPHY
It’s
All Greek Mythology to me
http://itsallgreekmythologytome.blogspot.com/
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologically
Relevant
http://psychologicallyrelevant.blogspot.com/
SNOBBERY
The
Rarifieid Tribe
http://therarifiedtribe.blogspot.com/
Perfect
Behavior
http://perfectbehavior.blogspot.com/
TRAVEL
The
Upscale Traveler
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
TRIVIA
The
Mish Mosh Blog
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON DC
DC
Behind the Monuments
http://dcbehindthemonuments.blogspot.com/
Washington
Oddities
http://washingtonoddities.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
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Theodore
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Paperback 194 pages
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THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND CIVILIZATIONS
The Works
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The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
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The
Quotable Epictetus
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Quo
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CHILDRENS
BOOKS
The
Porchless Pumpkin: A Halloween Story for Children
A Halloween play for young children. By consent of the author,
this play may be performed, at no charge, by educational institutions,
neighborhood organizations and other not-for-profit-organizations.
A fun story with a moral
“I believe that Denny O'Day is an American treasure and this
little book proves it. Jack is a pumpkin who happens to be very small, by
pumpkins standards and as a result he goes unbought in the pumpkin patch on
Halloween eve, but at the last moment he is given his chance to prove that just
because you're small doesn't mean you can't be brave. Here is the point that I
found so wonderful, the book stresses that while size doesn't matter when it
comes to courage...ITS OKAY TO BE SCARED....as well. I think children need to
hear that, that's its okay to be unsure because life is a ongoing lesson isn't
it?”
Paperback: 42 pages
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BOOKS
ON FOSTER CARE
It's Not
All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the books
contents
Paperback 94 pages
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From the Author
I spent my childhood, from age seven through seventeen, in
foster care. Over the course of those
ten years, many decent, well-meaning, and concerned people told me, "It's
okay to be foster kid."
In saying that, those very good people meant to encourage me,
and I appreciated their kindness then, and all these many decades later, I
still appreciate their good intentions. But as I was tossed around the foster
care system, it began to dawn on me that they were wrong. It was not all right to be a foster kid.
During my time in the system, I was bounced every eighteen
months from three foster homes to an orphanage to a boy's school and to a group
home before I left on my own accord at age seventeen.
In the course of my stay in foster care, I was severely beaten
in two homes by my "care givers" and separated from my four siblings
who were also in care, sometimes only blocks away from where I was living.
I left the system rather than to wait to age out, although the
effects of leaving the system without any family, means, or safety net of any
kind, were the same as if I had aged out. I lived in poverty for the first part
of my life, dropped out of high school, and had continuous problems with the
law.
Today, almost nothing
about foster care has changed. Exactly
what happened to me is happening to some other child, somewhere in America,
right now. The system, corrupt, bloated,
and inefficient, goes on, unchanging and secretive.
Something has gone wrong in a system that was originally a
compassionate social policy built to improve lives but is now a definitive
cause in ruining lives. Due to gross
negligence, mismanagement, apathy, and greed, mostly what the foster care
system builds are dangerous consequences. Truly, foster care has become our
epic national disgrace and a nightmare for those of us who have lived through
it.
Yet there is a suspicion among some Americans that foster care
costs too much, undermines the work ethic, and is at odds with a satisfying
life. Others see foster care as a part
of the welfare system, as legal plunder of the public treasuries.
None of that is true;
in fact, all that sort of thinking does is to blame the victims. There is not a single child in the system who
wants to be there or asked to be there.
Foster kids are in foster care because they had nowhere else to go. It's that simple. And believe me, if those kids could get out
of the system and be reunited with their parents and lead normal, healthy lives,
they would. And if foster care is a sort of legal plunder of the public
treasuries, it's not the kids in the system who are doing the plundering.
We need to end this
needless suffering. We need to end it
because it is morally and ethically wrong and because the generations to come
will not judge us on the might of our armed forces or our technological
advancements or on our fabulous wealth.
Rather, they will judge
us, I am certain, on our compassion for those who are friendless, on our
decency to those who have nothing and on our efforts, successful or not, to
make our nation and our world a better place.
And if we cannot accomplish those things in the short time allotted to
us, then let them say of us "at least they tried."
You can change the tragedy of foster care and here's how to do
it. We have created this book so that
almost all of it can be tweeted out by you to the world. You have the power to improve the lives of
those in our society who are least able to defend themselves. All you need is the will to do it.
If the American people,
as good, decent and generous as they are, knew what was going on in foster
care, in their name and with their money, they would stop it. But, generally speaking, although the public
has a vague notion that foster care is a mess, they don't have the complete
picture. They are not aware of the human, economic and social cost that the
mismanagement of the foster care system puts on our nation.
By tweeting the facts laid out in this work, you can help to
change all of that. You can make a
difference. You can change things for
the better.
We can always change the future for a foster kid; to make it
better ...you have the power to do that. Speak up (or tweet out) because it's
your country. Don't depend on the
"The other guy" to speak up for these kids, because you are the other
guy.
We cannot build a future for foster children, but we can build
foster children for the future and the time to start that change is today.
No time
to say Goodbye: Memoirs of a life in foster
Paperbook 440 Books
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BOOKS ABOUT FILM
On the
Waterfront: The Making of a Great American Film
Paperback: 416 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Making-Great-American-Film/
BOOKS ABOUT GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATUAL
Scotish
Ghost Stories
Paperback 186 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Ghost-Stories-Elliott-ODonell
HUMOR BOOKS
The Book
of funny odd and interesting things people say
Paperback: 278 pages
http://www.amazon.com/book-funny-interesting-things-people
The Wee
Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook
Perfect
Behavior: A guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Behavior-Ladies-Gentlemen-Social
BOOKS ABOUT THE 1960s
You Don’t
Need a Weatherman. Underground 1969
Paperback 122 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Weatherman-Notes-Weatherman-Underground-1969
Baby
Boomers Guide to the Beatles Songs of the Sixties
Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-Guide-Beatles-Songs-Sixties/
Baby
Boomers Guide to Songs of the 1960s
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Boomers-Guide-Songs-1960s
IRISH- AMERICANA
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook/
The Wee
Book of Irish Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-Recipes/
The Wee Book of the American-Irish Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-American-Gangsters/
The Wee book of Irish Blessings...
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Blessing-Proverbs-Toasts-ebook/
The Wee
Book of the American Irish in Their Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/Book-American-Irish-Their-Words/
Everything
you need to know about St. Patrick
Paperback 26 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-About-Saint-Patrick
A Reading
Book in Ancient Irish History
Paperback 147pages
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Book-Ancient-Irish-History
The Book
of Things Irish
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Things-Irish-William-Tuohy/
Poets and
Dreamer; Stories translated from the Irish
Paperback 158 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Dreamers-Stories-Translated-Irish/
The
History of the Great Irish Famine: Abridged and Illustrated
Paperback 356 pages
http://www.amazon.com/History-Great-Irish-Famine-Illustrated/
BOOKS ABOUT NEW ENGLAND
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook/
Wicked
Good New England Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Good-New-England-Recipes/
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Paperback 64 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Fifth-Regiment-Connecticut-Volunteers-Rebellion
The Life
of James Mars
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-James-Mars-Slave-Connecticut
Stories
of Colonial Connecticut
Paperback 116 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Colonial-Connnecticut-Caroline-Clifford
What they
Say in Old New England
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/What-they-say-New-England/
BOOK ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME
Chicago
Organized Crime
Chicago-Mob-Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Mob-Bosses-Accardo-ebook
The Mob
Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-1900-2000-ebook
An
Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line 1837-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Chronological-History-Chicago-1837-2000/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Buster-Peterson-Committee-ebook/
The Mob
Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History. 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Guns-Glamour-ebook/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-photos-Accardo/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Valentines-Massacre
The Life
and World of Al Capone in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Life-World-Al-Capone
AL
CAPONE: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the 0riginal 1930
edition.Over 200 new photographs
Paperback: 340 pages
http://www.amazon.com/CAPONE-Biography-Self-Made-Over-photographs
Whacked.
One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
Paperback: 172 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Whacked-Hundred-Murder-Mayhem-Chicago/
Las
Vegas Organized Crime
The Mob
in Vegas
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Vegas-ebook
Bugsy
& His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Bugsy-His-Flamingo-Testimony-Virginia/
Testimony
by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner (The Mob Files
Series)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-ebook
Rattling
the Cup on Chicago Crime.
Paperback 264 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Rattling-Cup-Chicago-Crime-Abridged
The Life
and Times of Terrible Tommy O’Connor.
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Terrible-Tommy-OConnor
The Mob,
Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Racket in Chicago
Paperback 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Giancana-ovethrow-Policy-Rackets-Chicago
When
Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy. In Photos
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Capones-Murdered-Roger-Touhy-photos
Organized
Crime in Hollywood
The Mob in Hollywood
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Hollywood-ebook/
The Bioff
Scandal
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Bioff-Scandal-Shakedown-Hollywood-Studios
Organized
Crime in New York
Joe Pistone’s war on the mafia
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Petrosinos-War-Mafia-Files/
Mob
Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Testimony-DiLeonardo-testimony-Undercover/
The New
York Mafia: The Origins of the New York Mob
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mafia-Origins
The New
York Mob: The Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mob-Bosses/
Organized
Crime 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate
http://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Valachi-Hearings-ebook
Shooting
the mob: Dutch Schultz
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Photographs-Schultz
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-Gaslight-Killing-Rosenthal-Illustrated/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City
Paperback 382 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Street-Gangs-Gangsters-York
THE RUSSIAN MOBS
The
Russian Mafia in America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Russian-Mafia-America-ebook/
The Threat
of Russian Organzied Crime
Paperback 192 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Threat-Russian-Organized-Crime-photographs-ebook
Organized
Crime/General
Best of
Mob Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Files-Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-Crime/
Best of
Mob Stories Part 2
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-ebook/
Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters-ebook
Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-For-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
More Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobs
http://www.amazon.com/More-Recipes-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
The New
England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook
Shooting
the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-mob-Organized-photos-Mobsters-Gangsters/
The
Salerno Report: The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Salerno-Report-President-ebook/
The
Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We only kill each other"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Wars-other/
The Mob
across America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Files-Across-America-ebook/
The US
Government’s Time Line of Organzied Crime 1920-1987
http://www.amazon.com/GOVERNMENTS-ORGANIZED-1920-1987-Illustrated-ebook/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City: 1800-1919. Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-1800-1919-Illustrated-Street-ebook/
The Mob
Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Informants-ebook/
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The Book
of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.
Paperback: 436 pages
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-American-Jewish-Gangsters-Pictorial/
The Mob
and the Kennedy Assassination
Paperback 414 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-Mobsters
BOOKS ABOUT THE OLD WEST
The Last
Outlaw: The story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Paperback 152 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Outlaw-Story-Younger-Himself
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Chicago:
A photographic essay.
Paperback: 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Photographic-Essay-William-Thomas
STAGE PLAYS
Boomers
on a train: A ten minute play
Paperback 22 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-train-ten-minute-Play-ebook
Four
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy
Four More
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy/
High and
Goodbye: Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they deserve. A full length play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/High-Goodbye-Everybody-Timothy-deserve
Cyberdate.
An Everyday Love Story about Everyday People
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberdate-Everyday-Story-People-ebook/
The
Dutchman's Soliloquy: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of
Gangster Dutch Schultz.
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Dutchmans-Soliloquy-factual-Gangster-Schultz/
Fishbowling
on The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: Or William S. Burroughs intersects with
Dutch Schultz
Print Length: 57 pages
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American
Shakespeare: August Wilson in his own words. A One Act Play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/American-Shakespeare-August-Wilson-ebook
She
Stoops to Conquer
http://www.amazon.com/She-Stoops-Conquer-Oliver-Goldsmith/
The Seven
Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island: A ten minute play
Print Length: 14 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Gilligans-Island-minute-ebook/
BOOKS ABOUT VIRGINIA
OUT OF
CONTROL: An Informal History of the Fairfax County Police
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McLean
Virginia. A short informal history
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THE QUOTABLE SERIES
The
Quotable Emerson: Life lessons from the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over 300
quotes
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The
Quotable John F. Kennedy
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The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons/
The
Quotable Machiavelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-Thayer/
The
Quotable Confucius: Life Lesson from the Chinese Master
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese/
The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Henry-Thoreau-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Robert-F-Kennedy-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Writer-Quotables-ebook
The words
of Walt Whitman: An American Poet
Paperback: 162 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Walt-Whitman-American-Poet
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Popes-Maria-Conasenti
The
Quotable Kahlil Gibran with Artwork from Kahlil Gibran
Paperback 52 pages
Kahlil Gibran, an artist, poet, and writer was born on January
6, 1883 n the north of modern-day Lebanon and in what was then part of Ottoman
Empire. He had no formal schooling in Lebanon. In 1895, the family immigrated
to the United States when Kahlil was a young man and settled in South Boston.
Gibran enrolled in an art school and was soon a member of the avant-garde
community and became especially close to Boston artist, photographer, and
publisher Fred Holland Day who encouraged and supported Gibran’s creative
projects. An accomplished artist in drawing and watercolor, Kahlil attended art
school in Paris from 1908 to 1910, pursuing a symbolist and romantic style. He
held his first art exhibition of his drawings in 1904 in Boston, at Day's
studio. It was at this exhibition, that Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who
ten years his senior. The two formed an important friendship and love affair
that lasted the rest of Gibran’s short life. Haskell influenced every aspect of
Gibran’s personal life and career. She became his editor when he began to write
and ushered his first book into publication in 1918, The Madman, a slim volume
of aphorisms and parables written in biblical cadence somewhere between poetry
and prose. Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931, at the age of 48
from cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
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The
Quotable Dorothy Parker
Paperback 86 pages
The
Quotable Machiavelli
Paperback 36 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-L-Thayer
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons-words/
The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Helen-Keller-Richard-Willoughby
The Art
of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Gorucho Marx
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